The folks at Graphic Policy agree with me, and yesterday they posted s simple graphic to show just how much creators would gain:

The above graphic shows that creators are going to gain an addition 12 cents on the dollar, and that is probably a pessimistic estimate. GP is assuming that Amazon will deduct credit card charges before splitting revenue, but based on what we have seen in the Kindle Store and in Audible it is more likely that Amazon will cover the payment processing fees themselves.

But even if GP is right, this change is still a significant boost in potential income. No matter how anyone attempts to spin it, the comic industry, and the creators, make out better with this change.

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What’s more, you know what kind of digital media started out with a 50-50 revenue split? E-books. The suggested retail price was set at double the wholesale. But you know what Amazon said?

“Yeah, that ‘suggested’ retail price is just a suggestion. We’ll just chop out most of our margin and make everything a lot cheaper so people buy more!” Cue the angry publishers…

Of course, it’s up in the air whether they can do that kind of thing with comics, given that Diamond apparently distributes the digital comics as well as the print ones and won’t let anyone sell digital cheaper. But you never know.

Actually, it’s one of *two* contracts that Amazon and ComiXology will have to change. The first contract is between content creators and ComiXology and the second one is between Amazon and ComiXology. By Amazon keeping ComiXology as a separate entity, this second contract is still in effect, _unless_ they changed it. As far as I know, this hasn’t happened.

This is the operative term here. You don’t know. Neither does Nate. Neither do I. Until someone can say definitely “Amazon isn’t changing contracts” with some evidence other than “I <3 Jeff Bezos", it's all idle and meaningless speculation.

“do you have any evidence (other than anecdotal claims) that revenues will decrease?”

Sales opportunities have decreased, which pretty strongly suggests sales themselves will decrease. As to revenue, who knows. All I can say for sure is that I deleted the app and can be content picking up the periodical graphic novel – perhaps via direct sales. (I also didn’t renew my Marvel Universe subscription the other week, but that was for different reasons.)

It’s also speculation that Amazon buying ComiXology will change how much the content creators will earn. _If_ Amazon is keeping ComiXology as a separate business, then it’s _most likely_ that their finances will be kept separate too.

Unless we know for sure what is going to happen with their finances, or any change indication, it’s all speculation.

Now can we get an updated graphic of how much the creators earned now that people like myself stopped buying and the app is at one star? What about those small comics people only discovered in the easy to use app, which was able to incite impulse buys and direct a reader to those less known comic books that we never see now in the ungainly and annoyingly difficult to use storefront? How about the money lost to Comixology and creators when I go straight through Amazon because it is cheaper?